On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 at 20:21, Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 06:19:05PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > What I find terrible about the bugzilla experience compared to any > > forge bug tracker is the default entry point to it for users is not > > simply the list of bugs in the component. The search facility is the > > frontend and IMHO that immediately degrades the experience compared > > to the integrated bug trackers. Regardless of what else BZ offers, > > it is hard to accept that entrypoint as a desirable experience. > > I don't think we should promote any bug tracker as the entry point for > most users. They should interact with discussion or the like and find > out if there's really a bug there and get directed from there where to > file it. > > > Conceptually I find the co-location of bug tracker, code and merge > > request to be a compelling mechanism to encourage collabaration > > with users. The provides a conceptual nudge for users, towards > > looking at the code and opening a MR, rather than merely opening > > a bug and doing nothing more. I'd willingly sacrifice BZ features > > to get that improved integration > > I think thats good for maintainers/advanced users, but many users will > not know that a crash of foo is due to a bug in libbar or how even to > find out the source component for the thing thats causing them problems.
That process should largely be dealt with by a crash reporting tool like abrt so it's automated and local for the user and the maintainer gets a nice crash dump with a full backtrace. Yes I am aware abrt is abandoned but it serves as a half reasonable example. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
